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3D map of the Czech Republic, made from 12.5cm/px imagery (2017)
posted on Sun Nov 06 12:02:34 UTC 2022 by Toutouxc | view on HN
Galois field instructions on 2021 CPUs
posted on Sun Nov 06 14:07:52 UTC 2022 by 082349872349872 | view on HN
The article discusses how CPUs operate on data types that can be viewed as integers modulo 2, 2, 2, and 2 respectively, and how addition and multiplication can be defined on these integers modulo 2 in a way which is familiar to most people.
posted on Sat Nov 05 06:31:29 UTC 2022 by snee | view on HN
Body doubling is when someone with ADHD has another person present with them to help them focus and be productive.
posted on Sun Nov 06 11:21:52 UTC 2022 by doener | view on HN
EU Voice is the official ActivityPub microblogging platform of the EU institutions, bodies and agencies (EUIs) that is part of an alternative social media pilot program proposed, and provided by the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS).
The essence of Reed-Solomon coding
posted on Sun Nov 06 14:01:21 UTC 2022 by rostayob | view on HN
The article discusses a way to store data using Reed-Solomon encoding.
Substitute Web Fonts with StopTheMadness
posted on Sun Nov 06 15:21:10 UTC 2022 by alsetmusic | view on HN
The article's author is considering adding a font substitution feature to their StopTheMadness program, but is unsure if it is something that enough people would want to warrant the effort.
Ancient water system uncovered at Roman Stabiae
posted on Sun Nov 06 14:10:02 UTC 2022 by redbell | view on HN
The article discusses how cookies are used on the HERITAGEDAILY website and how they are used by third-party companies.
posted on Sun Nov 06 11:19:51 UTC 2022 by plurby | view on HN
Zero point leet seconds (2018)
posted on Sun Nov 06 11:07:45 UTC 2022 by susam | view on HN
The article discusses how long it takes light to travel around the Earth's equator.
Bike: Innovative Rich Text Editing
posted on Sun Nov 06 04:52:22 UTC 2022 by goranmoomin | view on HN
There is no one way to end text formatting and go back to typing unformatted text.
Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media
posted on Sun Nov 06 15:11:37 UTC 2022 by buovjaga | view on HN
The article discusses how the recent influx of Twitter users to Mastodon is a vindication for its founder Eugen Rochko.
Make your DOM look like an eye that can focus on anything
posted on Sun Nov 06 08:32:51 UTC 2022 by jj811208 | view on HN
The article discusses the features of the "watching-you" library, which makes it easy to support responsive design and multiple frameworks with zero dependencies.
I Don't Understand Why We Throw Away Perfectly Working Things
posted on Sun Nov 06 14:18:04 UTC 2022 by cpsns | view on HN
The article is about how we as a society throw away perfectly good things, and the author doesn't understand why.
Twilight: A Differentially Private Payment Channel Network
posted on Sun Nov 06 11:58:11 UTC 2022 by nobody9999 | view on HN
The article discusses the Twilight payment channel network, which provides a differential privacy guarantee to its users.
Nearly all binary searches and mergesorts are broken (2006)
posted on Sun Nov 06 13:02:16 UTC 2022 by finnlab | view on HN
The article discusses a bug in a binary search program that was written by Jon Bentley and published in his book 'Programming Pearls'. The bug went undetected for two decades.
Skio (YC S20) is hiring – subscriptions for Shopify, easy ReCharge migrations
posted on Sun Nov 06 12:03:19 UTC 2022 by kennandavison | view on HN
The article discusses a company that helps brands on Shopify sell subscriptions and that has raised $7.4 million in seed funding.
The elite, underpaid, and weird world of crossword writers
posted on Sat Nov 05 13:48:51 UTC 2022 by anarbadalov | view on HN
Crossword constructing is not a dependable income stream for most people because submissions are such a crapshoot and the pay is not very high.
posted on Sun Nov 06 12:15:03 UTC 2022 by ingve | view on HN
The article discusses how difficult it is to decide whether or not to upgrade macOS, and questions some common perceptions about Apple's support policy.
eBPF – Adding functionality to OS at runtime
posted on Sun Nov 06 06:55:56 UTC 2022 by truth_seeker | view on HN
eBPF is a revolutionary technology with origins in the Linux kernel that can run sandboxed programs in a privileged context such as the operating system kernel.
Git as a janky Twitter replacement
posted on Sun Nov 06 04:29:26 UTC 2022 by est | view on HN
The article is discussing how creating a branch with a name that is already being used as a tag could cause problems.
Wells are running dry in Southwest as foreign-owned farms feed cattle overseas
posted on Sun Nov 06 13:08:17 UTC 2022 by rntn | view on HN
The article discusses how the water in Wenden, Arizona's well has been rapidly depleting due to the farming of a neighboring well by Al Dahra, a United Arab Emirates-based company.
Crows are capable of recursion, scientists claim
posted on Sat Nov 05 18:21:56 UTC 2022 by kposehn | view on HN
Show HN: Feep! search, an independent search engine for programmers
posted on Sun Nov 06 16:25:00 UTC 2022 by wolfgang42 | view on HN
The article is about the search engine Feep! which is focused on programming resources.
Lessons from the invention of the thermometer
posted on Sat Nov 05 18:30:29 UTC 2022 by firstSpeaker | view on HN
The article discusses the invention of the thermometer and how it was a shockingly simple and marginal improvement.
To get kids into science, just do it
posted on Sat Nov 05 23:11:38 UTC 2022 by prostoalex | view on HN
The article discusses how children are more likely to be successful in science if they are encouraged to experiment and explore, rather than being told to "be" scientists.
New Long March 5B Uncontrolled Reentry Tracked by Aerospace's Experts
posted on Sun Nov 06 10:44:09 UTC 2022 by graderjs | view on HN
The article discusses the reentry of the Long March 5B rocket stage and the potential risks it poses to human safety and property damage.
posted on Sat Nov 05 03:39:05 UTC 2022 by Petiver | view on HN
The article is about the discovery of the Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient computer, and the debates surrounding it.
Oskar Barnack: The Father of 35mm Photography
posted on Sun Nov 06 08:21:49 UTC 2022 by giuliomagnifico | view on HN
Oskar Barnack's invention of the 35mm film camera changed the world by making photography portable, fast, and of reliably high quality.
The Preppers Were Right All Along
posted on Sun Nov 06 16:10:58 UTC 2022 by xqcgrek2 | view on HN
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10 years of FTL: The making of an enduring spaceship simulator
posted on Sun Nov 06 02:02:32 UTC 2022 by zdw | view on HN
The article tells the story of how the popular indie game, FTL, came to be. The game's developers were inspired by other games in the genre and wanted to create something that would make the player feel like they were in charge of the ship.